Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-03-03

haullng,
John Leavitt OF Fairfield, Shiawasses
county, raised a wheat check SlOO. The
young mans father settled the matter on
condition that he work year and u half
without wages.
Flint expects to have the free delivery
service by the lst OK April.
Operations at the Jonesville cotton mill
! are to commence at once.
T. A. Hurley of Bronson, who will be re-
membered in connection with the lire or
March 80 last, in which his wife,
daughter and father lost their lives, Will
commence the erection in the spring or
block of two stores on the spot where the
fire originated.
Chas. Beggs, for nearly % years keeper
of the lighthouse at Escanaba, Is dead.
Ridgeway, a station in Lenawee county
was visited by fire Feb. 81 which destroy
ed the feed mill of Nichols a. Co., Harry
1 Smiths residence and Asahel Smiths
meat market. Loss, $500; no insurance.
At a school exhibition in Ferry town
ship, Oceana county, Il. Jordan disturbed
the meeting. M. q. Abbott attempted to
| eject him and was struck over the head
! with a gun fracturing his skull. No hopes
of his recovery. Jordan is in jail.
.,oI-. Bohem of Monroe will spend the
next year in Jackson for forging his moth.
er-in-law's hand, as surety for a note.
Robert Dunford of Manistique Is in the
tolls for drawing some other mans pen
, sion.
Henry Mensing of Tecumseh has taken
the contract for rebuilding the Clinton
mills.
Marine City had a $1,000 fire Feb'y %.
Fife Lake was visited by the most de.
stroying fire ever known in its history on
mated at about $4,000. Mr.. +. b. Dennis
, Of the Fife Lake Comet suffers the great
est loss, as his Office was completely de-
stroyed, and he had no insurance.
The male department of the Traverse
City insane asylum is full TO overlooking.
Abraham Buker, the Jackson car repair
IT whost arm was so badly mutilated in
the yards in that city few days ago as to
necessitate amputation, has died from
blood poisoning.
c. l.. Bennett of Vassar will start q
single and paving block factory in Ros-
common.
Here is soue good advice from the
Romeo Hgdrant: Ii the farmers would
keep in mind the fact that no agent ever
gives away something OF value FOR nothing,
and then firmly resolve to keep their sigma:
ture off from every paper that is presented
to them to sign 10y stranger, they will bt
money ahead in the end.
A 12-year old named Feltzer of Grand
Rapids, was fatally injured while riding
down a toboggan slide. A splintered board
was run clear through his bladder.
Prof. Olney's remains are to be inferred
at Kalamazoo.
The Flint q Pere Marquette Railroad
has just completed the purchase of two
half blocks of residences in Bay City, and
will probably utilize IL for switches. The
purchase was made through the strategy
! of private emmissaries, and 10 great sur
prise to the former owners, who were led
TO believe that private enterprise would
be erected, and ii was consequently sold
at low figure.
The Clare opera house was badly dam
aged by fire the other night. About 200
people were in the building at the time,
but fortunately no accident occurred.
Another swindling game is being sprung
upon the verdant granger in many local.
ties. A stranger calls Mt the farmers
house and represents himself as one that
is working in the interest OF the farming
community, and is DESTROYS of giving the
farmer two bushels OF a new variety of
oats. He binds the farmer to sow the
grain on n good piece of land, take the
best of care of them and when thre,hed in
the fall to give the stranger one half the
farmer raises. The stranger gets from
twenty to forty bushels of oats for two.
Look out for him
The fourth annual convention of the
women's relief corps, department of Michi-
gan, will be held In Grand Rapids, March
IL and Is.
The Jackson mine near Negaunee, re-
Gently purchased by Cleveland parties, is
to 30 worked at once.
Mrs r. e. Fincher OF Noble township,
Branch county, was married Jan. II, and
went with her husband to Clarendon, Neb.
A few days since her body was brought
back to Noble for burial.
The alkali works, which have been figur-
ing with Port Huron parties for some time
with view OF locating there, have finally
closed the contract for forty acres OF the
Bunce farm at that place, paying therefor
about S35 900. The purchasing parties are
Church a. Co., who will invest 81. 600 900 in
the enterprise. They ask no bonus, the
only condition being that salt shall be
found. Wells will he sunk at once.
Webb Miller of Charlotte, about Is years
old, was instantly killed at Nashville while
riding on freight train. He stood on the
rear platform, when the train took sud
den jerk, throwing him off backward, fall
ing across a rail. Before he could recover
the train backed over him, crushing his
head and scattering his brains along the
track.
H. H. Carson, for many years well-to-
do farmer living few miles north of
Owosso, met q sudden and terrible death
by drowning in the river near his home
1t is supposed that the horse became
lrlRnIeneu at the tnunOer ana lgntnlnS,
or in the darkness missed his footing and
fell down a steep embankment which runs
beside the road to the river below.
Liquor dealers in Marquette have raised
$1,000 to fight the prohibitory amendment
Richard Britton, a Linden saloon-keep-
er sold liquor on Washington's birthday
and it cost him $50 to do it,
Otsego gets the Bardeen paper MILL
A railroad chapel is to be built in Lans-
Ing.
A. J. Howes and wife OF Jackson were
married in 1850. They want to be DIVORCED
now.
After April I, Battle Creek college will
conduct special term for young minis
tiers, licentiates bible readers, etc.
The Grand Rapids express train struck
Mrs. Christina Frey, with q child about
three years old in her arms, while crossing
the bridge about three miles from Ann
Arbor Both were instantly killed.
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